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There's no better feeling than the one that comes with seeing your body become stronger and more efficient after adopting a new workout. Unfortunately, our bodies are very adaptable and most people find that if they don't switch up their fitness routine they will eventually reach a plateau. To find out what we can do to take our workouts to the next level and keep seeing results, we spoke to two leading fitness experts, Kira Stokes and Patrick Frost. We also asked two leading yoga experts, Loren Bassett and Dana Slamp, to highlight how gym-goers and athletes across the board can benefit from incorporating a yoga practice into their weekly routine.
See below for what the experts exclusively shared with us!
Kira Stokes, fitness expert, certified personal trainer, group exercice instructor, and star of Stoked TV
- "A Gym on Every Corner" – Look at your environment as the biggest gym in the world. During an outdoor run, every set of stairs you see, stop and run them 5 times. Every third park bench you spot, perform 60 seconds of step ups and 15 push-ups or dips. Every other hill you hit, sprint it.
- "A.D.D. Cardio" – In this case, A.D.D. stands for "Add Different Disciplines." When killing your cardio in the gym, don't stick to just one machine. Variety is not only the spice of life, it's what your body needs to see results. Pick 3 different cardio machines to use to get your sweat on. And remember, as a general rule, that one piece of equipment or exercise you always avoid because it's so tough is probably the one that you need to do the most because you get the most out of it.
- "Amp it Up" – Pay attention to the intensity of your workouts. Make sure you are working hard enough, not just going through the motions. Wear a heart rate monitor or check your heart rate frequently to make sure you are in your target zone. Run faster, increase the weight, increase the number of sets, change the order of your exercises. You can always push a little harder. The old adage, "you reap what you sow" applies to working out too.
- "Jump-Start Your Workouts" – A jump rope is one of the simplest yet most elegant pieces of workout equipment. So underrated. If you buy one thing today, buy a jump rope. Keep a jump rope with you at all times. A jump rope is a fantastic tool to amp up your cross-training workouts to ensure you are working at a fat burning, calorie blasting level. Jump for 3-5 minutes in between switching cardio machines while practicing your A.D.D. cardio. Perhaps shorten a run by a mile and replace it with 10 minutes of jumping rope. During strength training workouts, replace resting in between sets with 2 minutes of jumping. I promise you, you will be jumping for joy in no time!
- "The Art of Mixology" – Open your mind and body to new equipment. On strength training days, change up the equipment you use to get your "pump" on. Replace dumbbells with bands, use a stability ball instead of a bench. Medicine balls, weighted vests, balance boards, etc. can all be used to challenge the body in new ways, keeping you from hitting a dreaded plateau. You don't keep reading the same book over and over again, your mind would go numb…treat your body with the same love and care as you treat your mind!
Patrick Frost, Barry's Bootcamp instructor and personal trainer
- A great way to burn fat effectivly is long slow distance training, which is exactly what it sounds like. Pick a distance (5k to 10k) or time (30 minutes to 2 hours) and work these runs into your routines one to three times a week. It's a low intensity run. The benefits of this particular style of training are cardiovascular function, increased utilization of fat, and mitochondrial energy production. Because of the low intensity, the fuel that you utilize for energy is fat/fat storages.
- Fartlek training is another great way to amp up your workout routine — plus it's fun to say! It's a Swedish term that literally translates into "speed play." This style is great to increase oxygen intake which in return increases your lactate threshold. The duration of this workout is anywhere from 20 to 60 minutes; you maintain an easy pace with short burst of high intensity running lasting anywhere from 30 to 90 seconds. I would suggest doing this once a week.
- Interval training is great to do once or twice a week for 15 to 30 minutes. Example: 30 second sprint, 30 second recovery. This run is great for building endurance and to push that lactic threshold up a notch as well.
- Repetition training, which I suggest doing for 15 to 30 minutes about once a week, is often confused with interval training, but there's a key difference — recovery time. The ratio of interval is 1:1 where as the repetition style is 2:1 recovery to run. The idea is to run at race pace, so the recovery ratio is twice as long as your run. You reach your VO2 max anywhere from 30 to 90 seconds and recover for twice as much. This type of a run is great for increasing your running economy and increasing capacity and tolerance for anaerobic metabolism.
Loren Bassett, Pure Yoga hot power vinyasa instructor, founder of Bassett Bootcamp, Lululemon ambassador
- The mental, physical, and spiritual practice of yoga helps improve an athlete's form, focus, efficiency, and power.
- Deep, relaxed breathing expands lung capacity, improves concentration, and promotes mental focus. It integrates a mind/body connection that is ideal for athletes.
- Yoga builds strength by using your own body weight as resistance and holding isometric contractions. An important part of the practice is building core strength. The core is the epicenter of the body. A strong core prevents back problems by providing greater support for the spine and helps with balance.
- Yoga increases flexibility, improves range of motion, and balances the body. It is beneficial for athletes because it helps maintain balance between strength and flexibility. The flexibility helps prevent injury, particularly to fragile body parts like hips, groins, and the rotator cuff.
- Yoga improves balance, one of the most effective ways to correct muscle imbalance and body mechanic problems.
- The mental focus achieved from balancing postures, deep breathing, and calming the mind is a powerful practice for an athlete.
Dana Slamp, senior instructor at Pure Yoga
- Athletes in asymmetric activities such as boxing, hurdles, and archery can benefit from symmetric, weight-bearing postures, including plank, down dog, and chattaranga to balance the body.
- Generally, most athletes should not have the flexibility of say, a dancer, and yet stretching after a race, training session, or competition is essential for healthy repair. Practicing mindful yoga postures with conscious breath helps bring oxygen to the tissues of the body, aiding in the healing process.
- Sports medicine has shown that the the visioning meditations of yoga can improve performance. Balance postures like tree, warrior three, and half moon can hone the "single-pointed focus" that an athlete needs for competition.
- Balance postures have a secondary effect. They improve the yogi's proprioception — or the ability to know where the body is in space. This is of use in every sport imaginable, as is the deep core strength that comes when you balance.


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ICED EARTH Mainman To Appear At New York Comic Con
From Thursday, October 11 to Sunday, October 14, LinePlot Productions will have a booth at the New York Comic Con (NYCC) promoting the imminent release of its film, "Silver Circle". At the convention, ICED EARTH mainman/guitarist Jon Schaffer will be meeting fans and signing autographs. In addition, they will be live-tweeting from the convention to announce the release of their full-length graphic novel.
* Thursday, October 11 – 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. (professionals only)
* Friday, October 12 – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
* Saturday, October 13 – 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
* Sunday, October 14 – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Jacob Jevits Center
655 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
LinePlot Productions will be at booth #961.
Note: Jon Schaffer will be available for autographs and photographs at the LinePlot Productions booth on Saturday from 12 noon to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (subject to change and most likely extended).
"Silver Circle" is a film that lives in our world after massive economic collapse: tyranny, explosions, monetary mayhem, romance and rebels. At the center of corruption is the Federal Reserve who has gained enormous amounts of control over America's economy, with disastrous effects beginning to show. Standing opposite is the band of Rebels who have vowed to take back the freedom they once knew…and they won't go down without a fight.
"Silver Circle" plans to take liberty filmmaking to a whole other level.
The NYCC is the East Coast's biggest and most popular culture convention. The show floor hosts comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. Panels and autograph sessions give fans a chance to interact with their favorite creators.
The New York Comic Con is the second largest pop culture convention in America.
For more information, visit SilverCircleMovie.com.

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"Huge leaps of artistic sonic undulation make Arrows as multidirectional as its title. The other side of this musically poignant release is that the songs come alive by a sort of rare instrumentation and care in handling that proves itself righteous over and over." — Short and Sweet NYC
"It's like huge, post-metal, but with melodic shoegaze vocals and a couple Valium after all the bong rips - slowed down, but still complex. " — The New Scheme
"It's easy to get lost listening to Arrows. The band relies on slow tempos and beautiful, somber melodies punctuated by haunting noises and held together by barely there vocals..." — Ink Magazine
"It's amazing to hear the depth and complexity that is portrayed on a first release like this..." — Muzik Dizkovery
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Actors&Actresses are a 3 piece from Kansas City, MO who mix synthetic, pre-recorded and organic sounds to produce alternately chilling backdrops and intense sequences of heavy post rock. While the stage presence of the band is relatively calm, the visual accompaniments filmed and edited by drummer Dave Sumner provide textural kinetics, without actually overpowering the complex rumble the band creates. Triggered samples and treated drum loops roil in the background, while the overpowering down-tuned bass played by vocalist Scott Bennett bursts at the seams. Moving forward and aft through the stereo field, Andrew Schiller's guitars provide eerie whines alternating with roaring walls of chords. The band can deftly move from a vast downpour to a quite intimate and delicate singularity, often within mere measures. The lean arrangements of the band's material allow for the players to concoct a sound all their own yet deliver full sets of songs, each one sounding very different from the last. As record reviewers often note, it's easy to hear where A&A's influences originate, but they're somehow able to bring it all within their hazy machinery and make it all seem new again. They have released one EP titled "We Love Our Enemy" in 2005 and a full-length album titled "Arrows" in 2009 through The Mylene Sheath record label of Athens, GA. A remix project for select tracks from "Arrows" called "ARC" is being planned for 2011, with another full-length effort scheduled to appear in 2012.


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Today I have one of polishes from China Glaze Cirque du Soleil collection for you guys. Also, don't forget to participate in my American Apparel giveaway, here.
I had to show you this one first from picks from this collection, because this is definately my favourite one. It's a milky white jelly base with multi-colored glitter. I think this is really an awesome polish, though you have to work a bit to get it look nice. First I did two thin coats with some additional glitter placing and then topped it of with a bit thicker third coat. So the formula isn't anything you couldn't work with if you just are a bit more careful than usual. Also you probably need to use two coats of top coat, because this dries a bit bumpy. I think the polish is so pretty that at least I'm willing to put some extra work in just to wear this. It's so pretty and fun, so in my opinion this a must-have polish, because there isn't too many polishes like this, at least not made by mainstream brands. In fact, this does look a lot like an indie polish. So get this while you can!
Nail Tek Foundation II
China Glaze It's a Trap-eze 3 coats
China Glaze Fast Forward 2 coats


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These wine-infused, ring-shaped biscuits, called taralli, are on every Pugliese table during the antipasto course, but good ones can be hard to find in the U.S. This homemade version replicates their crisp, crumbly texture, with occasional hits of black pepper.
- Yield
- Makes 100 biscuits (as part of antipasti)
- Active Time
- 1 1/2 hr
- Total Time
- 3 hr
- 1 1/4 cups "00" flour
- 1/3 cup semolina (sometimes called semolina flour)
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 1/2 teaspoons fine sea salt, divided
- 1/3 cup dry white wine
- 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 cups water
- Whisk together flour, semolina, sugar, pepper, and 1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt, then stir in wine and oil. Transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead with lightly floured hands until smooth and elastic, about 2 minutes.
- Put dough in a lightly oiled large bowl and cover bowl with oiled plastic wrap. Let stand at room temperature 1 hour.
- Bring 4 cups water to a boil with remaining teaspoon sea salt in a medium pot.
- Meanwhile, halve dough, then cut each half into 10 pieces. Keeping remaining dough covered, roll 1 piece of dough into a 20-inch-long rope on an unfloured surface. Cut rope into 5 pieces, then roll each piece into a 4-inch-long rope, connecting ends of each to form a ring. Transfer to a lightly floured kitchen towel (not terry cloth). Repeat with remaining dough.
- Preheat oven to 350°F with racks in upper and lower thirds. Oil 2 large baking sheets.
- Boil rings in 4 batches just until they float, about 2 minutes per batch. Transfer with a slotted spoon to oiled baking sheets, arranging rings 1/2 inch apart.
- Bake, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until golden, 35 to 40 minutes. Transfer to racks to cool completely.
Cooks' note:
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A Continental Express commuter plane crashes in Texas near Houston, killing 14 people, on this day in 1991. The accident was caused by poor communication by the maintenance crew during a shift change.
The Brazilian-made Embraer 120 aircraft was scheduled for maintenance the afternoon before its scheduled 7 a.m. flight on September 11. Short of workers, an inspector was drafted to assist the afternoon maintenance crew.
The inspector worked on putting the screws on the plane's horizontal stabilizer but did not finish the job. When his shift was over, he told the foreman about the remaining screws but did not write it down, as proper procedure required.
The foreman failed to tell the workers on the late-night shift about the unfinished work; they saw the horizontal stabilizer in its correct position and did not notice that all the screws were not properly in place.
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The Embraer 120 took off on time as Continental Express Flight 2574 with 14 people on board. It broke up in the air over Eagle Lake, Texas, killing everyone on board.
A subsequent investigation by the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) clearly identified the direct cause of the crash though there was some disagreement about the underlying cause. The majority of the board held the maintenance technicians culpable for not following proper procedure.
The NTSB's Dr. Jon Lauber, however, blamed the corporate culture of Continental Express for the disaster.


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Wordless Wednesday: All About Bikes
39 comments:
- Amanda said...
i love the pic with the doggie in the basket!! i want a bike so very bad!! lol!
- July 7, 2010 at 12:00 PM
- Bumpkin on a Swing said...
I need a pink bike with a basket big enough for a Bullmastiff....
He wants to go too!
Good one, Trish will squeal, she loves the bikes!
I really do go to the Open Air Market for fresh flowers on Saturday, and would love to ride them home in a basket on my bike!
- July 7, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- Stéphanie said...
- July 7, 2010 at 12:22 PM
- Diana Mieczan said...
I love bikes and you put together a great selection....awww..I want the red one..I know its calling my name...hahah:)
Kisses darling and see you soon!
- July 7, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- Hannah said...
Love all of the bikes! I did a post on some last week, but you're pictures are great! Where did you find all of them? Happy Wednesday!
- July 7, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- Overlooking Mississippi said...
These are all lovely....So cute how all the boys are looking at the lady on the bicycle..:)
- July 7, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Unknown said...
I LOVE these bikes!!!!!
- July 7, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- Valerie said...
What fun bikes! Some of these remind me of my beach cruiser, which I LOVE! Hope you're having a nice day.
- July 7, 2010 at 12:43 PM
- Overlooking Mississippi said...
You can def. join the tea party! Wish we were neighbors, coz our tastes are way too similar!
- July 7, 2010 at 12:50 PM
- dulci said...
I love it!
- July 7, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- Elle said...
What great and fun images... and you'll never believe it but my prescheduled post pink and green thursday is about bikes tomorrow.... hehehe... once again we're thinking alike :)
- July 7, 2010 at 1:18 PM
- this free bird said...
You sure do know how to put these together. The third one is just calling to me. Probably because it would mean I could shut the heat off!
- July 7, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- Bren said...
Love these bike shots! I actually have a really cute bike in my garage that needs riding! Hopefully I'll get some time to take it out soon!
Bren @ Chasing Beauty
- July 7, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- Felicity said...
The lads can have the Tour de France, give me these lovely lassies and their bicyclettes any day.
Perhaps we should start our own stylish cycling tour 'The Tour de Force'?!?
x Felicity
- July 7, 2010 at 1:23 PM
- Melissa Blake said...
Ahhh, I love that dog!!! :)
- July 7, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- erica said...
All these pictures makes me really want to get a vintage style bike!
- July 7, 2010 at 1:52 PM
- georgia ~ gi gi said...
Miss Poppie Let's ride together :)
I almost didn't post mine because I saw yours, but darnit I have been dying to do my bike post! Yours of course is so lovely, dreamy and oh so pretty!
Big Smooch!
- July 7, 2010 at 1:53 PM
- Annie said...
the pic with the dog in the basket is too cute!! love it
p.s. just found your blog and loving it :)
- July 7, 2010 at 1:59 PM
- Kimmy said...
I absolutely love the second and tenth photos for they hold two of my favorite things: vintage clothing and tulips.
Superb Wordless Wednesday post, cheers!
- July 7, 2010 at 2:26 PM
- A Casa da Vá said...
a picture of a bike always relates to fun times... love it all!
- July 7, 2010 at 2:42 PM
- Leah said...
I so need a bike with a basket so I can run errands and make my own wind in this heat! Love these pics!
- July 7, 2010 at 3:10 PM
- Unknown said...
What is it about a basket on a bike that feels so romantic to me?
- July 7, 2010 at 4:00 PM
- Bela said...
Weeellll...I pick the one with the purple flowers basket! My style. Me. But not riding so far...little lazy for so.
kisses Poppies and Sunshine!!!
- July 7, 2010 at 4:43 PM
- Lynzy said...
I have never been to your blog before today, what adorable little photos <3 LOVE it.
XO Lynzy
- July 7, 2010 at 5:47 PM
- Unknown said...
Oh, I love these! Bikes are so romantic, I need to get one! I would put a basket of flowers just like this on it! XO!
- July 7, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- Hazel from Hazel Loves Design said...
I've been thinking about getting a bike for a while now, these pictures had definitely encouraged me to pursue that idea even more!! :) Hazel
- July 7, 2010 at 6:34 PM
- Abby said...
Love these pics! I have fond memories of learning to bike when I was little, including the scraped knees and biking into trees and stuff. I'd still be nervous to bike in a skirt, though, haha.
- July 7, 2010 at 9:03 PM
- Punctuation Mark said...
love it when girls get all the boys attention...
- July 7, 2010 at 9:44 PM
- Favourite Vintage Finds said...
Oh you have got me wanting a vintage or vintage inspired bicycle big time. It has been 20 years since I had my own bicycle, it is about time I got one isn't it? Sending smiles. :)
- July 7, 2010 at 10:21 PM
- ELVIntage said...
So inspiring!!! I need to get a vintage bike sometime very soon. I want one so bad now...Just lovely.
xx Emily
- July 7, 2010 at 11:50 PM
- Jess said...
You have made me want a bike even more now! These are gorgeous photos :)
- July 8, 2010 at 1:22 AM
- Porchlight Interiors said...
Tis the season for bikes!
Thanks for stopping by.
- July 8, 2010 at 2:49 AM
- Radostina // 79ideas.org said...
Amazing. Thank you for the inspiration. So pretty pictures :)))
- July 8, 2010 at 3:28 AM
- Talei said...
Ooh I have a bike with wicker basket! Love your blog!
- July 8, 2010 at 7:49 AM
- J. said...
Oh I want that pink cruiser! A girl can always use 2 bikes right?
- July 8, 2010 at 7:53 AM
- Andrea said...
Fabulous post! The first image is TDF!!
- July 8, 2010 at 8:54 AM
- Leslie, Lemon Sweet Life said...
Gorgeus pics!! I love all of these illustrations and I am loving bikes too!! Something about the image of a bike brings back great memories!!
- July 8, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Cornflakes and Honey said...
There's something so cute about a bike, especially a vintage retro one!
Of course I think about how pretty it looks rather than as a form of excercise, lol. It would be very sweet to cycle to my local bakery and florist on a Sunday morning though or to a picnic with friends... I'd need a basket in the front of course!
Lovely pics!
- July 8, 2010 at 10:15 PM
- Rosie said...
love each and every "Wordless Wednesday"...Well done dearest
.....love Rosie....
- July 8, 2010 at 10:32 PM


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The Banquet of the Concubine
Hefang Wei | Canada 2012 | 12:19 | Chinese with Eng Sub.
In the year 746 AD, a banquet is given in honour of the Emperor's favourite concubine. But can the taste of the sweet delicacies pacify her bitter jealousy?
Hefang Wei participated in the Folimage Artist-in-Residence programme, and created this film in coproduction with the National Film Board of Canada and Nadasy film.
Good Night Sweet Charlatan
La Chunk by Lil' Lohan* | Canada 2013 | 4:05
Back-dropped by the controversy around Blurred Lines and the MTV Music Video Awards, Toronto-based moody synthesizer duo Depression Era treacherously take their stanceontheuseofTIYF.
La Chunk by Lil' Lohan was found virtually topless and eating digital crab apples in the hills of the Internet. In her dreams, experts say this is her first music video.
Marlene Millar & Philip Szporer Canada 2012 | 5:25
Bharata natyam is a modern take on one of the oldest classical forms in India. This dance was choreographed by Natasha Bakht, and adapted for this site-specific film shot in a crystal mine and abandoned copper quarry.
Philip Szporer and Marlene Millar co-founded the arts film production company Mouvement Perpétuel. Together they have co-directed and produced many documentaries and short dance films.
Item Number
Oliver Husain | Canada 2012 | 16:00
Influenced by Indian musical dramas of the 1940s and '50s, Item Number features an elegant woman delivering a melodra- matic monologue before the curtain rises. Awarded for Best Contribution to German cinema at Oberhausen 2013.
Oliver Husain is a Toronto-based German-Indian artist, and is known for his delightfully constructed digital worlds, conceptual theatre, and multimedia installations.
Treasure Hill Camouflage
soJin Chun | Taiwan 2012 | 2:00
Camouflage is a method of survival. The artist attempts to blend into the environment of a former illegal settlement and residence for ex-soldiers.
soJin Chun was born in Seoul Korea, raised in Santa Cruz Bolivia, and is based in Toronto. Chun's work often investigates the hybrid realities.
Portrait as a Random Act of Violence
Randall Okita* | Canada 2012 | 4:20
An act of vandalism is trans- formed into a monument for reconciliation. A beautifully crafted kinetic sculpture becomes a countermovement and response to violence in history, such as the Asiatic Exclusion League attacks on Asian businesses in Vancouver, 1907.
Randall Okita was born in Calgary and is now based in Toronto. His films Machine with Wishbone and Fish in Barrel have been screened around the world.
Shiro Yagi
Cindy Mochizuki | Canada 2012 | 12:02
An animated film inspired by the last sheet of existing music of the artist's maternal grandfather, Sueo Mori, written in 1927. Mori was a poet, composer and high school teacher based in Yokohama, Japan.
Cindy Mochizuki is an interdisciplinary artist who often integrates archival materials and interviews in her process.
Eui Yong Zong* | Canada 2013 | 5:04
Eui Yong confronts his family about the events around his conception, and his mother's planned abortion.
Eui Yong is currently studying film at York University. His short My Grandpa won the Allan King Memorial Prize, and documentary Elizabeth screened at TIFF student showcase.
My Father, Francis
Casey Mecija* | Canada 2013 | 11:38
In the process of creating furniture together, a daughter reveals her love for her father's life-long practice of making recycled materials into beautiful objects.
Casey Mecija is a Toronto-based singer-songwriter of the former band Ohbijou. My Father, Francis is her debut film.
Lonesome Town
Grace Wang* | Canada 2013 | 2:35
Of the most popular seaside towns in America, Coney Island experienced decades of neglect and a super storm that nearly destroyed it. What is left is nostalgia for a past long gone.
Grace Wang is a writer, filmmaker, and producer. Her first narrative short, I Remember, screened in Berlin and USA. Lonesome Town is her second film. Winner of 2012 Reel Asian So You Think You Can Pitch? Competition.
A Grand Canal
Johnny Ma* | Canada/China 2013 | 19:00
Remembered by his 10-year-old son, a captain tries collect a debt to save his fleet of boats. Like a Greek tragedy told with Chinese pop song, the film is a unique twist on personal histories.
Johnny Ma was born in Shanghai and raised in Vancouver. His short films are The Robbery (2010), Play (2011), The Genius from Quintino (2012), and A Grand Canal (2013).


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Soft Boiled Eggs
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Good breakfast for a lazy Sunday
Soft Boiled Eggs
4 comments:
- Anonymous11:44 PM
You know, I don't think I've ever had a soft boiled egg. Now I'd really like to try. (I went through a whole "eggs creep me out thing" well through my late teens. Things changed roughly around the whole gluten free business started; I guess I have a lot to catch up on!)ReplyDelete
Your pictures are really pretty. And also, congrats to you for making it through half of November with daily posts! Such an accomplishment!
They're really good if you only like hard boiled eggs for the whites, and if you love runny yolks like I do. Thanks! The posting everyday was hard when I first went back to work, but now I've been writing a bunch of posts ahead of time so I have posts to throw up if I don't make anything or nothing happens that's interesting. I'm going to try to keep posting more even after November's over, I've been slacking.ReplyDelete
I looooove soft boiled eggs. I eat them all the time! I scoop them out of the shell, cut them up in a bowl and eat them on toast. YUMReplyDelete
jenny, that sounds delicious. I've never had them anywhere but scooped right out of the shell!ReplyDelete


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I also understand having a few drinks to calm down. But being so upset that you missed 2 doses of your epilepsy pills wasn't a good idea (granted, you'd probably have gotten trashed and missed your meds even if the Colts had won, you'd just be happier about it).
No, the state MVD does NOT have an exception to allow you to keep driving in spite of stupid behavior. So you're done driving for a bit.
I AM serious! See? Here's the form, let's look at the exception boxes:
1. Seizures only occur during sleep (not you).
2. Patient has a warning that allows him to take protective action (not you either).
Nope, there isn't a box that says "Patient got shitfaced on cheap beer following his team's Superbowl loss, forgot to take his pills for 2 consecutive doses or go to work on Monday, and had a seizure while arguing with his girlfriend (who happens to be a New Orleans fan but was still nice enough to drive him to his appointment today)".
So let's take our pills and try not to watch sports for a while.
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Here at Whisper Mountain, we have created homesites, trails, and many other exclusive amenities that tread lightly on the earth and offer the best values in Western North Carolina.
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This is Whisper Mountain, where you will find the very finest of North Carolina home sites, a vibrant community with active property owners, and a development partner to help you plan your future smart living choices.
Living in balance with nature and embracing the land…this is what it means to make your home at Whisper Mountain. Come see our world, and discover a place where humanity and nature thrive in delicate symmetry. Plan your visit to secure your place in the mountains – to find the smartest, greenest, forward thinking community in the Asheville area. »» Plan a Trip
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Screen shot from Closky's Do you want love or lust?
Your lover wants to move in, and you have a choice: you can say, "ok, I'll try it for a weekend and then we'll see" or you can "threaten to break up right now."
Then, your boss gives you a compliment. You can either: "say ironically, 'soon you won't be able to afford me,'" or "mentally calculate how much more you will ask him for."
You choose, you choose again, then you choose again. Each time, you are presented with another choice, an either/or. It's impossible to predict the outcomes that either decision might yield, but you choose carefully, expecting that each choice will shape your future path.
This is the sprawling question set of Claude Closky's 1997 Do you want love or lust?, an early web-based hypertext work that draws the user/viewer/player into what seems like a CYOA (choose your own adventure narrative). By making a choice—clicking love or lust—you enter a fictional, and emotional, space where you are the protagonist of this story.


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SUNY Canton Volunteer Tax Prep Services Expand Off Campus
SUNY Canton Accounting students will be offering free tax return preparation for the community and have expanded to off-campus locations in Canton and Massena.
For the fifth straight year, students will be working with the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to help low- and moderate-income individuals and families prepare their taxes.
The qualifying income bracket for participants is a gross income below $49,000, according to the IRS. Students from SUNY Canton serve as VITA volunteers to increase their own tax preparation skills and help community members learn to file their own taxes.
"We emphasize confidentiality and require a high-level of professionalism," said Assistant Professor of Accounting Peggy J. Jenkins. "Our fully-qualified and IRS certified students have practiced their preparation skills and are ready to help. We are offering our services at more locations with the hopes of helping more people than ever before."
Student volunteers will be available when the college is in session in Payson Hall Room 208 until April 8th at the following times:
- Mondays – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Tuesdays – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Wednesdays – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Thursdays – 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Assistance will also be available off campus from:
- 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 5, and Friday, March 5, at the One-Stop Career Center in Canton.
- 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, and Friday, March 12, at the Massena Unemployment Office.
Appointments are strongly encouraged and are required for military and foreign student returns.
Individuals or families who would like assistance must bring all W2 forms, the previous year's tax returns and all other pertinent documents with them at the time of their appointment. For more information, contact Jenkins at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (315) 386-7979.
Media inquiries should be directed to Gregory Kie, Media Relations Coordinator, or call 315/386-7528.
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The Lycian Way
Inaugurated in 2000, the Lycian Way is a long-distance trail that runs parallel to much of the Turquoise Coast, In theory, it takes five weeks to complete the entire trail, but most walkers sample it in stages rather than tackling it all in one go.
Starting above Ölüdeniz and ending just shy of Antalya, the trail takes in choice mountain landscapes and seascapes en route, with many optional detours to Roman or Byzantine ruins not found in conventional guidebooks. Some of the wildest sections lie between Kabak and Gavurağili, above the Yediburun coast, and between Kaş and Üçağız. Elevation en route varies from sea level to 1800m on the saddle of Tahtalı Dağ. The best walking seasons along most of the way are October (pleasantly warm) or April and May (when water is plentiful and the days long); except in the highest mountain stages, summer is out of the question.
The route itself ranges from rough boulder-strewn trails to brief stretches of asphalt, by way of forested paths, cobbled or revetted Byzantine/Ottoman roads and tractor tracks. While the entire distance is marked with the conventional red-and-white blazes used in Europe, plus occasional metal signs giving distances to the next key destination, waymarks can be absent when you need them most. Continual bulldozing of existing footpath stretches into jeep tracks is such a major problem that the notional initial section between Hisarönü and Kirme has now ceased to exist, with most hikers starting at Faralya, while periodic maintenance (and where necessary re-routing) barely keeps pace with fast-growing scrub and rockfalls.
An unofficial "add-on" route, the Likya Yolları, runs from Hisarönü to Fethiye via Kaya, while loop side trails and alternative routes are being marked in different colour schemes. Kate Clow, who marked the original Lycian Way, adapted the Turkish military's ordnance survey 1:50,000 maps for her The Lycian Way, a guide-booklet-with-map, which indicates points for water, camping and (often obsoletely) overnighting indoors. The English-language version is sold at select bookshops, newsstands and travel agencies all along the coast as well as from online book retailers. Hard-wearing and waterproof, the map often saves the day, as trail descriptions can be frustratingly vague. It's also important to be aware that timings in The Lycian Way apply to those carrying a full pack; deduct about a quarter when doing sections as day-hikes.
A website, wlycianway.com, offers updates on route conditions and a user forum.
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Fujifilm's 3D mammography creates 3D images by using two high resolution images taken from different angles. One of these images is a conventional 2D image. The images are presented on a special viewer. 3D images enable the internal anatomical breast structures to be identified more clearly than in a 2D image due to tissue separation and microcalcifications stratification. With this system, it is expected that image interpretation is as quick or even quicker than 2D mammography and false positives are reduced.
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Marketing & Sponsorship with ICEF
ICEF marketing and sponsorship opportunities provide significant international exposure for your organisation, increasing your brand visibility and networking potential
ICEF Workshops, the industry's premier educator / agent networking events, occur annually in nine locations across the globe. ICEF events enable educators to hold one-to-one business appointments with relevant, quality student recruitment agents, service providers, as well as with other educators.
Around 5 000 industry professionals attend ICEF events annually. ICEF Workshops set the standard for excellence and attract leaders in international student recruitment from around the world.
Booking a marketing and sponsorship item with ICEF is an efficient and cost-effective way to get your message to these important multipliers dealing with tens of thousands of international students and young travellers annually.
Platinum, gold and silver sponsorship packages allow workshop participants to gain maximum brand exposure at ICEF events.
With platinum, gold and silver sponsorship packages, participants benefit from a number of branding opportunities. Ranging from catalogue adverts, to your logo on the workshop bags and appointment scheduling system, and presentations to participants, each package includes a number of options, with the platinum package providing the most comprehensive coverage.
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The Two Oscar Wildes
The Importance of Being Earnest
At the climax of Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, we learn that a baby has been mistaken for a book. Until that improbable revelation, however, the play—Wilde's wicked exposé of the artificiality of conventional morality, and his one unequivocally great work—is concerned less with procreation than with recreation. Earnest follows two fashionable young heroes, Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing, as they lead elaborate double lives, complete with false identities and imaginary friends, that allow them to seek unrespectable pleasures while presenting a respectable face to their local societies: London for Algy, whose fictional invalid friend, Bunbury, provides frequent excuses to escape to the countryside; Hertfordshire for Jack, whose assumption of a fictional identity of his own (that of a ne'er-do-well brother named Ernest) allows him to misbehave in town.
Those artificial façades start crumbling when both men fall victim to natural impulses. Jack has fallen in love with Algy's cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax, and Algy becomes besotted with Jack's young ward, Cecily Cardew, during a mischief-making visit to Jack's country house. (He arrives pretending to be the black-sheep brother, Ernest—which is just as well, since Cecily, like Gwendolen, has always yearned to marry a man named Ernest—and Jack can't expose Algy without exposing himself.)
But Jack's matrimonial aims are seriously impaired by the fact that he has no pedigree. As he sheepishly reveals during an interview with Gwendolen's mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell, he was discovered, as an infant, in a large handbag in the cloakroom in Victoria Station, and subsequently adopted by the kindly gentleman who found him.
Just how the baby got into the handbag is revealed in the play's final moments, when it evolves that Miss Prism, the tutor currently employed by Jack to educate Cecily, was once a nursemaid in the employ of Lady Bracknell's sister—the same nursemaid who'd gone for a promenade with Algy's elder brother twenty-eight years ago and subsequently disappeared, along with her charge. As the shocked company looks on, Prism describes how, "in a moment of mental abstraction," she had switched the baby she was taking care of and the manuscript of the novel she was writing, placing the former in her handbag, which she deposited in the railway station cloakroom, and the latter in the pram, which she took for a stroll. On realizing that she'd lost the baby, Miss Prism fled London and never returned.
Miss Prism's inability to distinguish between a human being and a work of fiction may have been the result of mental abstraction, but for Oscar Wilde, the conflation of life and art was always deliberate. The result, for us, is that it has never been easy to separate how Wilde led his life—particularly his personal craving for notoriety—from his aesthetic and creative impulse to subvert. As early as the 1870s, before he'd left Oxford for London, the Dublin-born student of both Pater and Ruskin was playing the young artiste with a flair for self-promotion that caught the attention of the…
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I previously released a script to use transmission (BitTorrent client) over NFS/Samba.
This script was written for transmission 1.x. I updated to use transmission 2.x. It's a hack more than anything else, it's just a wrapper for transmission-remote, the official RPC client.
It works as before. You put $file.torrent in a watchdir, the script runs (cronjob) and create $file.trs (containing infos about the download) and starts the download. Rename it $file.trs- to pause it, remove the $file.trs to stop it. When the download is finished, you get a mail (if cron is properly set up).
Due to progress made by transmission devs, the install process is even simpler.
1) Set up watch and download dirs as before.
2) Install/Upgrade to transmission 2.x (packages cli and daemon).
3) [this make senses only if you used the previous version] Debian now starts transmission with the debian-transmission user. Trying to keep using torrent cause the init script to fail and, in the long run it's anyway best to use the user debian maintainers provides. To easily switch to this new user, I removed the new debian-transmission entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group and then replaced torrent by debian-transmission (except /home path obviously) in both these files (also updated /etc/cron.d/torrent/). Finally I ran chown debian-transmission.debian-transmission /var/lib/transmission-daemon /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json.
4) Update transmission-daemon config. Make sure the daemon is down before, otherwise your changes won't stay. So edit /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json. I changed:
"blocklist-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/home/torrent/download",
"message-level": 0,
"peer-port-random-on-start": true,
"port-forwarding-enabled": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": false,
5) Install the script torrent-watch.pl, test it:
cd /usr/local/bin
wget http://yeupou.free.fr/torrent2/torrent-watch.pl
chmod a+x torrent-watch.pl
su debian-transmission
cat status
6) Set up cronjob and log rotation:
* * * * * debian-transmission cd ~/watch && /usr/local/bin/torrent-watch.pl
/home/torrent/watch/log {
rotate 2
Then you should be fine 🙂


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3 Ways to Eliminate Toxins in Your Baby's Nursery
3 Ways to Eliminate Toxins in Your Baby's NurseryMany people are becoming aware of the dangers of toxic chemicals, which is one reason why Naturepedic crib mattresses are so popular. But there's so much information out there, it's sometimes hard to know how to get started on your quest to eliminate toxins from your baby's nursery. Here are a few changes that will give you a good start.
- Change your household cleaning products to something non-toxic. See our blog Cleaning Products for the Non-Toxic Nursery for more info.
- Make sure the paints, carpets and other materials in the room won't off-gass. See our post An Organic Crib Mattress is Great – But What About the Nursery Walls and Floors for exact details on how to do that in a day or two (or maybe three or four – but not long.)
- Filter your air. No matter how chemical-free your baby's nursery is, there's no way you're going to keep the outside air where it belongs. A good filter system will help keep inside air clean.
Those few basic will give your baby a healthy environment, and a healthy start in life.
p.s. see more about the lovely nursery in the photo at Snugabub.


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I took it to a repair shop I trust and they had to send it somewhere else to find out if the machine can be saved. This means I had to wait for a month.
But I cannot wait for a month.
So, I decided to buy a new laptop with Linux pre-installed. As my brother Megatotoro had a very positive experience with ZaReason (and I envied his Alto laptop, to be honest), I went for this beauty: the Strata 7440.
- The Bard's Tale (real funny)
- Revenge of the Titans
- Worms Reloaded
- Snuggle Truck
- Hero Academy
- Cogs
- Osmos
- Violett
- Braid (I love the concept of this game!)
- Nihilumbra
So, the balance tilts more into the positive side than into the negative. I only need to figure out how to solve the webcam thing...


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LOS ANGELES - With Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" and Ridley Scott's "Exodus" preparing to duke it out for Old Testament auteur supremacy, Hollywood's religious renaissance gets off to a none-too-spectacular start with a chewed-over New Testament appetizer called "Son of God." A clumsily edited feature-length version of five episodes from History's hugely popular 10-hour miniseries "The Bible," this stiff, earnest production plays like a half-hearted throwback to the British-accented biblical dramas of yesteryear, its small-screen genesis all too apparent in its Swiss-cheese construction and subpar production values. Yet while Jesus' teachings have been reduced to a muddle of kindly gestures and mangled Scriptures, the scenes of his betrayal, death and resurrection crucially retain their emotional and dramatic power, which the charitable viewer may deem atonement enough for what feels, in all other respects, like a cynical cash grab.
As the first quasi-big screen account of the life of Jesus in the decade since Mel Gibson's far more contentious "The Passion of the Christ," "Son of God" should capitalize sufficiently on church-based word of mouth to intrigue if not galvanize Christian moviegoers. Although some scholars have taken issue with the series' deviations from the Bible, the film arrives in theaters bearing pre-packaged endorsements by such prominent spiritual leaders as Rick Warren, T.D. Jakes and Sam Rodriguez - some of whom served as advisers to the TV project spearheaded by husband-and-wife exec producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey (who retain their producing credits here, as does co-writer Richard Bedser).
"In the beginning was the Word," the gospel writer John (Sebastian Knapp) intones early on, his revelation in the miniseries having been repurposed as a framing device here. From there the film plunges into a clumsy Old Testament highlights reel, a marketing tie-in for "The Bible" that gives viewers just enough time to wave to Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and some god-awful CGI before depositing them at the scene of the Christ child's birth.
Gone are the formative elements of Jesus' upbringing and his temptation in the wilderness, reportedly due to complaints that Satan (as played in the miniseries by actor Mehdi Ouazzani) bore a suspicious resemblance to President Obama. The story proper begins as Jesus (handsome, sleepy-eyed Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado) calls forth his disciples at the Sea of Galilee and begins his compassionate ministry of teaching, healing and prayer.
And so, in fairly rapid succession, Jesus restores a paralytic, feeds the 5,000, and walks on water in a stormy sequence that suggests a relic from the Cecil B. DeMille era. In this abbreviated, arbitrary approach to biblical interpretation, the greatest story ever told becomes a checklist of miracles, and Jesus' words and deeds, far from carrying the shock of radical epiphany, feel obvious and preordained. Time, or at least running time, is clearly of the essence: Miracles and lessons are expediently juxtaposed, and the Sermon on the Mount plays more like the Sermon on the Montage. Although he occasionally pauses to speak in parables, this Jesus is not above getting right to the point for the benefit of a busy 21st-century audience.
Elsewhere, schlock aesthetics prevail: When the sneering Pharisees attempt - and fail - to condemn a woman caught in the act of adultery, their stones fall to the ground in slow-motion, each one landing with a Dolby-amplified thud. While we are clearly a long way from the raw austerity of Pier Paolo Pasolini's masterpiece "The Gospel According to St. Matthew," or the rigorous integrity of Philip Saville's word-for-word 2003 adaptation of "The Gospel of John," a cinematic adaptation of Scripture nonetheless demands style, poetry, vision or, barring that, a point of view - none of which seems to have been part of the assignment handed to directors Christopher Spencer (who helmed the three episodes from which the pic is chiefly drawn), Tony Mitchell and Crispin Reece.
"Son of God," a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "intense and bloody depiction of The Crucifixion, and for some sequences of violence." Running time: 138 minutes.


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Titan's surface seen from fly-by on 22 August 2005
Making its first return to Titan since April 16, the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft returned these images of the moon's surface and complex atmosphere during its fly-by of 22 August 2005.
The main image was taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera in infrared wavelengths and reveals mid-latitudes on the moon's Saturn-facing side.
This region has been imaged previously by Cassini, although the recent approach has improved the moderate-resolution coverage of the area.
Provisional names recently have been applied to a number of features on this side of Titan. Features within the region seen here, known informally as the 'H' because of its shape, now have names like Tsegihi, Aztlan and Quivira.
The image right is composed of three images taken with the wide-angle camera using red, green and blue spectral filters and combined to create this natural colour view.
For more information:
Carolina Martinez, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA
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text: In modern times, terrorism has emerged as a scourge and South Asia is the region where terrorist groups of almost all varieties have operated. However, countering the challenge from terrorism came on the international agenda only after the attacks of 9/11. This book is an attempt to study the problem of terrorism in South Asia, which has often been perceived at its hub.


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Toshiba's first foray in Blu-ray players is the BDX2000, and it will be arriving by the end of October.
The BDX2000, the first Blu-ray player from the company that championed the loser in the format wars Hd-DVD, provides 1080p 24fps playback.
The player supports BD Live profile 2.0 and includes DivX and AVCHD playback as well.
As you may expect Toshiba's REGZA link is present and accounted for along with BonusView for picture in picture and an SD slot so you can show off your photos.
There is also support for various Dolby audio formats including TrueHD
- BD-Live (Profile 2.0) & BonusView
- 1080p Full HD Video Output
- DivX & AVCHD Playback
- Support for enhanced audio formats from Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio | Essential
- SD Card Slot (SDHC Compatible)
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Three Counties Alliance SCITT
Modern Languages (2B7D)
PGCE with QTS, full time or part time
- Financial support
- Bursary or student finance if you're eligible
- Qualification
PGCE with QTS
A postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS) will allow you to teach in state schools in England and may allow you to teach in other parts of the UK.
It may also allow you to teach overseas, though you should always check what qualifications are needed in the country you'd like to teach in.
Many PGCE courses include credits that count toward a Master's degree.
- Course length
- 1 year (full-time) or up to 2 years (part-time)
- Date you can apply from
- 8 October 2019
- Date course starts
- September 2020
- Website
- http://ytcascitt.co.uk/
- About the course
- Interview process
- How school placements work
- Fees
- Financial support
- Requirements
- About the training provider
- Training with disabilities and other needs
- Contact details
- Apply
- Support and advice
About the course
This course is for: French with Spanish. For Spanish with French please see our other course: FA21.
Here is a brief overview of our programme - for more details please visit YTCA SCITT: Programme Information.
Our well-established programme, rated 'Good' by Ofsted in 2016, requires trainees to develop a wide range of teaching skills, to reflect on their practice, and to demonstrate they meet the Teachers' Standards.
In summary we offer:
- a mixture of experiential and academic learning;
- excellent pastoral care, well-being training and support;
- placements in at least two schools with the opportunity to experience other specialised educational settings - click here to view our programme information;
- high-quality training delivered by skilled and experienced practitioners;
- one-to-one personalised support throughout the training year from in-school mentors and the YTCA SCITT team;
- bespoke curriculum and subject knowledge development training;
- support with finding school employment once qualified;
- the opportunity to complete a PGCE in Primary and Secondary Education with Sheffield Hallam University (4 taught sessions, 2 modules, 2 practice-based assignments).
Our core curriculum is primarily delivered through "Hub Days". They consist of workshops led by practicing teachers who are expert practitioners and are designed to develop strategies and skills for the classroom as well as opportunities to network with other trainees and reflect on practice. These include:
- Show and tell sessions – to share something that has worked well, a challenge or good resource.
- Book club – we have our own little SCITT library. Your challenge is to read all the books before the end of the year!
- Reading time – to read your Book Club book, research for your PGCE assignments or another topic of interest to you.
- Curriculum and Subject Knowledge Development Sessions – during the year, subject/primary specialists from our partner schools will come in to deliver specific training in subject/primary groups.
- Portfolio and Final Assessment support – trainees will receive guidance and support to develop their evidence base showing they have met the Teachers' Standards.
Assessment for this course is through school experience (placements), a Reflective Portfolio containing evidence bundles, placement reports and a Final Assessment presentation.
The next full and part-time programmes will start in September 2020 and finish in the last week of June 2021 (full-time) or sometime in 2022 (part-time, dependent on timetable) for those trainees that meet the Teachers' Standards.
Interview process
Our aim is to be able to identify the highest quality candidates that meet our success criteria; those best prepared to begin QTS assessment and most likely to be graded as "Exceeds Teachers' standards" by the end of their training.
If your application is successful we will invite you to an interview at one of our partner schools. The panel usually includes the SCITT Programmes Lead, a subject specialist and another ITT specialist.
The interview process includes:
Teaching a 25-minute lesson based on a topic and class data which you will receive prior to interview. We do take into account that you may never have taught before so we aren't looking for a perfect lesson! Instead, we will be considering your potential to become a teacher!
A 10-minute presentation about the British education system, that you have pre-prepared;
A 30-minute interview which will cover your reasons for wanting to teach, your understanding of the role of the teacher, your own skills and attributes and how these might support you in your training and current issues in education.
Document check (ID & qualifications);
Subject knowledge test (30-40 minutes) - designed to assess the breadth and depth of your knowledge across the curriculum (primary) or in your subject (secondary).
A short speaking test with a specialist to check fluency in your chosen language(s).
How school placements work
The placements you complete during your training year will give you a breadth of experience and provide a range of opportunities for you to demonstrate you have met all the Teachers' Standards.
We currently have a number of excellent partner schools with a proven track record of developing outstanding trainees.
The SCITT currently operates an "ABX" placement model where you will have the opportunity to teach 11 to 18 year old students across two or three placements.
Placement A consists of some school Induction Days and approximately 12 assessed teaching weeks. This is your opportunity to develop your core teaching skills.
Placement B consists of some school Induction Days and approximately 18 teaching weeks. You will be placed in a contrasting school so you can experience different things and develop your skills in different areas.
Placement X is for trainees that are doing Post-16. This will be short placement including some school Induction Days and approximately 6 teaching weeks. We will decide this based on your circumstances and needs.
We also have time set aside for Enrichment Experiences which include:
- Two days in a KS2 setting;
- Two days in a KS5 setting;
- Two days in other educational settings. These might include visits to a Pupil Referral Unit, Special Needs schools/units, schools with specialisms, etc.
We take into consideration information given to us by successful candidates regarding issues with travel, etc.
Part-time calendars are created in negotiation with the trainee and their placement school – please contact us if you would like to discuss this further.
The cost for the course is £9200. Candidates may be eligible for a student loan, bursary or scholarship.
Please visit Get into Teaching: An overview of funding for more information.
Financial support
You'll get a bursary of £26,000 if you have a degree of 2:2 or above in any subject.
You don't have to apply for a bursary - if you're eligible, you'll automatically start receiving it once you begin your course. Find out about eligibility and how you'll be paid.
You may be eligible for a loan while you study – note that you'll have to apply for undergraduate student finance.
Find out about financial support if you're from outside the UK.
GCSEs at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) in English Language and Mathematics.
An degree at classification 2:2 or above from a UK university (or equivalent):
- All subjects are acceptable;
- Third class degrees will be considered on an individual basis;
- If you are in your final year at University we will look at your predicted grade.
A-Levels - if your degree is not directly related to the subject you want to teach we consider your A-level qualifications.
Fluency in French and a good level of Spanish.
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We usually see candidates demonstrate the following in successful applications and interviews:
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David Velasco writes about Michele Abeles in Artforum (via Brian Droitcour.) Starting with an amusing anecdote about a project involving the Boardwalk Empire star, the piece is a look at the artist's approach to photography, given its changing nature in the digital age:
As if to further disarticulate the usual figure-ground relationship, she'll often title her photos by rattling off some of their ingredients. The title Number, Lycra, Man, Hand, Rock, M.L., Cardboard concatenates the generic elements of that 2009 image according to the flattened order in which her eye is drawn to them as she scans the composition. The photograph becomes a sort of rebus that could be read out loud. Against photography's materiality (the indexical trace of light on film) we have an insistence on iconicity, on the fundamental unmooring of picture from reality.
Not only do these pictures subdue the photograph's material trace, but they also imply the elision of the photographic machine itself. The best example of this is the only one with a face: Sunglasses, Lips, Head, Reflection, 2009, a photo of a dude in pink-camo sunglasses looking at the camera, his odalisque pose reflected in his shades. Abeles and her camera should be reflected in the sunglasses too, but they aren't. (She shot the photo from behind a panel of mirrored glass.) So it's like he's posing for himself, his picture magically taken without anything at all—the disappearance of the apparatus and its operator maybe signaling the eventual obsolescence of the camera in our imagemaking repertoire. We'll be our own cameras. Of course, the camera is still there. And so is Abeles. They're just out of the picture.
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The positive association between educational attainment and adult health ("the gradient") is stronger in some areas of the United States than in others. Explanations for the geographic pattern have not been rigorously investigated. Grounded in a contextual and life-course perspective, the aim of this study is to assess childhood circumstances (e.g., childhood health, compulsory schooling laws) and adult circumstances (e.g., wealth, lifestyles, economic policies) as potential explanations.
This article presents the case for utilizing business directories in building commercial gentrification indexes as tools for research on neighborhood change. It reviews several existing methods of capturing retail change within the growing literature, codifies them as the boutique index, the food index, and the ethnic index, and discusses methodological issues that emerge in building them.
As the economies of production and trade have dwindled in Western cities, urban locales have had to capitalize on other opportunities for growth. Middle and upper class consumers are now sought after resources for cities and neighborhoods once supported by manufacturing. This article considers the role of local retail actors in shifting neighborhood identity towards luxury consumption.
Standard narratives on the relationship between art and urban development detail art networks as connected to sources of dominant economic, social, and cultural capital and complicit in gentrification trends. This research challenges the conventional model by investigating the relationship between grassroots art spaces, tied to marginal and local groups, and the political economy of development in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen. Using mixed methods, I investigate Do‐It‐Yourself and Latinx artists to understand the construction and goals of grassroots art organizations.
Amidst findings of increased bicycling in the United States, research continues to demonstrate that women and racial minorities are underrepresented as cyclists in the United States (Buehler and Pucher 2012). While quantitative data may reveal estimates of these disparities, we know little about the motivations or deterrents related to cycling as they are experienced by individuals.
With reduced hours, decaying infrastructure, and precariously positioned staff, local public libraries provide much needed services in cities devastated by inequality and slashed safety nets. In this article, I draw on ethnographic research of a small public library in a diverse, mostly working class neighborhood in Queens, New York. I show that in addition to providing an alternative to the capitalist market by distributing resources according to people's needs, the library serves as a moral underground space, where middle‐class people bend rules to help struggling city residents.
This article extends Suttles' (1972) theory of the defended neighborhood by applying the framework to a contemporary context and exploring the social processes that residents of a diverse community used to defend their neighborhood from change.
Adopting complimentary integrative research methodologies, this article examines changing conceptions of community among urban residents within the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China. Through local residents' past memories, "everyday" experiences of (former) urban communities, and reflections on a particular way of life, we focus upon the subjective/affective meanings and memories attached to processes of urban change.
While many older adults live in neighborhoods undergoing gentrification, research rarely explores their narratives about the gentrification process and their relationships with gentrifiers. This study uses discourse analysis of ethnographic data in Queens, NY, to identify repertoires in older adults' narratives about the meaning of place and gentrification.
Following the Great Recession, homeownership rates declined precipitously, raising concerns for the stability and well‐being of neighborhoods. While many studies document shifts in household constraints, this article draws from foreclosure records from 2006 to 2011, subsequent transactions, tax exemption filings, and maintenance data in Boston, Massachusetts to show how the foreclosure crisis altered the landscape of ownership and unfolded differentially across hard‐hit neighborhoods.


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Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text invites you to enter the world of shadows, as we explore the secrets and mechanics of the Rogue class. This week, we'll be talking the impending expansion, and what you can do to prepare yourself for a long trip through the snow.
Arthas has been busy over these past years. Killing his father, defiling the Alliance's most sacred city, enslaving an entire army of mindless undead, and a virulent zombie invasion; just to name a few. The Light's greatest paladin tried to stand against him, and was crushed. The demonic have tried to defeat him using their own fel magics, and were left bloodied in the snow. Even the most powerful Elven mages tried to stop his relentless assault, and their civilization was utterly destroyed.
After these hard years, Arthas' cruel reign of fear and terror over the citizens of Azeroth has reached a breaking point. The people can suffer no more pain or agony. The hounds of war have been unleashed and the wax-sealed envelopes from Thrall and Varian have been delivered. We've received our orders, and the message is clear: Assassinate the Lich King. Finally, our leaders have gotten some sense shaken into them by Arthas' brutality and ruthlessness. Finally, they've decided to send in the Rogues.
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Every Wednesday, Chase Christian of Encrypted Text invites you to enter the world of shadows, as we explore the secrets and mechanics of the Rogue class. This week, we'll be talking the impending expansion, and what you can do to prepare yourself for a long trip through the snow.
We have a mission in Northrend, to end the Lich King's dominance of Griftah's favorite ski resort. Arthas is strong; we are the shadow. But in order to defeat this dark enemy, you must first know yourself. You must know where your inner strength lies, and where to draw your power from when combating the Scourge in this desolate wasteland.
Every class will be receiving new skills as they level from 70 to 80, and Rogues are no exception. The majority of our new skills simply do more damage than the previous ones, but a few are unique. For example, our first trainable skill at level 71 is a new-and-improved version of Sap, specifically designed to frustrate Druids, Hunters, and Warlocks. With its new capacity to incapacitate Beasts, Demons, and Dragonkin, expect to be using it more often against the wide variety of creatures in Northrend.
Our next new spell is Tricks of the Trade, available at 75. This is great for when you're playing in a party, but if you plan on solo'ing, it won't be of any use. Cast this often and coordinate with your party members; two Rogues can cast this on each other to provide a significant boost to damage. TotT may become more important in the raiding world as an improved version of Misdirect (shows those Hunters right for calling dibs on Thunderfury), and will also be a key ability for coordinated burst in the arena. Get it on your action bar, and get used to casting it on your friends.
Our last new ability comes in the form of an AoE, with Fan of Knives. While currently its energy cost and effectiveness are questionable, it can prove useful while leveling and questing, especially for Rogues of the Combat persuasion. The cooldown was recently reduced to 10 seconds, making it more available for AoE though its energy cost will determine how often we can use it. While sure, it's not as fancy as some of the other level 80 class abilities, just be glad we didn't get stuck with Heroic Throw (shows those Warriors right for calling dibs on Thunderfury).
Speaking of the Combat tree, I still believe it will be our most powerful leveling talent spec. Unfair Advantage and a metric ton of sustained DPS with some multi-target utility tops the burst of Mutilate against mobs with significantly higher health pools than we're experiencing at 70. I will personally be spec'd Assassination, as leveling on my PvP server will likely incite a few open world skirmishes to settle some old blood feuds. Subtlety leveling is not out of the question, but I would reserve it only for those who are in love with the playstyle (or really, really hate Combat).
Questing and Grinding:
Similar to when The Burning Crusade was released, mobs have evolved in WotLK to more complex creatures than the simple auto-attacking drones that we encountered in vanilla WoW. Expect to be using Kick often in PvE (and hey, it costs 10 less energy) and using your stuns to prevent key mob abilities as you encounter entirely new types of enemies. And if you didn't catch the reference, the Deadly Throw Silence effect was removed from our PvP gloves and replaced with a 10 energy reduction on Kick. I haven't spoken with any Rogues happy with this change, and hopefully Blizzard will see our unhappiness, and we might see the change reverted on the Season 5 set.
As a Rogue, and especially when solo'ing, figure out which quests are the most tailored to your abilities. Quests that only involve killing mobs, or recovering an item from behind enemy lines are typically very easy for us to pull off, and will result in the most experience per hour on your way to 80. Blizzard has added some interesting new quest types, such as interactive airborne attacks. Look for quests with rewards that offer useful gear, and try to complete those first. That way, you'll have the new gear while completing the next set of quests.
With a "Ring of Blood version 2" at 75 and several Blacksmithing items requiring only basic materials, you shouldn't have much of a problem having good quality blue weapons available in Northrend. You'll also start to see more leather gear with Expertise and Haste Rating as well as open sockets, giving us some variety in our choices. I find Expertise to be a fantastic leveling stat; if you've got some good gear with Expertise on it, throw it on before you jump on that frozen zeppelin headed North.
As we did when we migrated to Shattrath and the hostile remnants of Draenor, be sure to cut your ties with Outlands before you depart for the frozen wastes that await us. Blow your Badges of Justice on some leveling gear or slots that you are weak in, dump all of your quest items and clear out the trash from your bank. Get a few Glyphs or materials ready, and stock up on useful consumables (I recommend Warp Burger and Elixir of Major Agility) for the grind that awaits.
Plan out your talent choices as you level, and choose where you'll put them each time you 'ding'. Take a look through some quest guides and area maps and start formulating your plan of attack. A great Rogue is like a good chess player: we're always 10 steps ahead. Someone has to kill Arthas and destroy his Throne, and the Shadow knows that if we leave it to the Warriors we would all still be deciding who is going to be the main tank for Lucifron. So master your techniques, prepare yourself, and execute on our plan to take the fight to the Lich King himself. With any luck, we'll do a little better than the last time we tried to take out a major player. Happy hunting, my brothers and sisters of the shadow.
(P.S. - I will be at the WotLK midnight launch at the Paseo Nuevo GameStop in Santa Barbara, CA at 9 p.m. PDT if you'd like to show up and talk shop!)


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By John Maginnis
Despite that he often engages in an adversarial relationship with reporters and bloggers, Gov. Bobby Jindal owes a debt of gratitude to Greg Hilburn of the Monroe News Star and his severest cyber critic, C.B. Forgotston.
hile Jindal was serenely signing and vetoing the last of the bills passed by the Legislature, Hilburn broke a story revealing a little-noticed Department of Revenue declaration of a tax credit up to $3,000 for the purchase of any of 112 makes of vehicles, going back to 2009. The story quoted House Appropriations Chairman Jim Fannin, who estimated a budget hit of $100 million, saying, "It could wreck us."
Forgotston followed up by e-mailing the story to his subscriber list, including media and politicians, under the screeching headline, "Idiots run our state!"
That might have helped to get the governor's attention, who, by sundown, had sent Revenue Secretary Cynthia Bridges a letter rejecting her emergency declaration of April 30. The next day he accepted her resignation. In her place, Jindal appointed Deputy Secretary Jane Smith as interim, who–the ironies pile up–as a state representative in 2009, sponsored the legislation on which Bridges based her declaration.
Smith, who was "shocked" that her former boss had not informed the governor of the action, said the alternative fuel tax credit in Act 469 was meant for consumers who would convert their cars to run on compressed natural gas. "Flex fuel vehicles were never even discussed, testified about, mentioned," Smith said. True, the words "flex fuel" were not in her bill, but "ethanol" was, along with "methanol," "biofuel" and "electricity" as qualifying alternative fuels.
Three years later, in the administrative rule-making process, Bridges applied the tax credit to cars and trucks capable of burning ethanol, even if drivers fill up on gasoline instead. She also included all qualified purchases going back to when the law was signed in 2009. (I am no economist but it seems to defeat the purpose of a tax incentive to apply it retroactively.)
Because he was not told, the governor was unaware of the declaration's impact, according to his press office. Others around him were not so in the dark. "This could have a devastating impact on the budget," said Senate President John Alario, a tax preparer by trade, who was already amending clients' returns to get their money. When Fannin learned about it during the session, he alerted not the governor but his accountant, who filed for credits on two vehicles Fannin bought in 2010. Sen. Francis Thompson also sniffed out the deal and called Commissioner of Administration Paul Rainwater to discuss it. "It's absurd," said the Delhi Democrat, after filing to get his own $3,000 back.
If he hasn't already, Governor Jindal should learn what his inner circle knew and when they knew it. The farce of an administration not knowing what the administration is doing with $100 million brings to mind the governor's favorite slam on his opponents' proposals: This is the Washington, D.C., way of doing things.
Once clued in, the governor's quick rejection of the six-week-old declaration might control the damage to a fender bender. How much worse would it have been, without the clarion calls of Hilburn and Forgotston, for Jindal to awake next Saturday to banner-and-balloons car ads screaming: "Giant State Tax Giveaway Sale"?
But he is not clear of his wreck yet, given the potential political pile-up. His interim revenue secretary has said the state will honor all credits granted so far. Does that cover all those sent in prior to Thursday? Also, the governor's rejection letter did not address former Secretary Bridges' policy statement. Rather, he wrote that the declaration failed to give the facts that constitute an emergency. Interim Secretary Smith now has to write a new rule that undoes the reasoning of her predecessor and rescinds a credit that car-buying taxpayers were starting to line up for.
The moral of this story–Team Jindal can see this coming–is that perhaps our governor, instead of jetting about the country to raise money for Republican candidates and to promote himself, might spend more time around the Capitol, where he could pick up on what's going on, the way Francis Thompson does. At any rate, he should get something nice for Hilburn and Forgotston, like a gift card, perhaps, for gasoline.


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Eating Poppy Seeds in Pregnancy, an Ill-Advised Habit
The advice to stop eating once labor kicks in has always seemed a bit draconian to me. Giving birth is hard work; why not munch if you're hungry?
Study O.K.'s Light Drinking During Pregnancy. Too Good to Be True?
A glass of wine or two a week — and not more than one large glass on any occasion — may be safe during pregnancy, according to a large study just published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Is "Birth Rape" for Real?
Giving birth is not a modest affair. After a lifetime spent covering up your privates, there they are, front and center, splayed out for any ole doc or nurse to see.
Pregnant? Flu Shots Protect Moms — and Their Babies
Roll up your sleeves, moms-to-be. It's flu-shot season, and new research released Monday shows that babies whose mothers were vaccinated during pregnancy were less likely to get the flu or to be hospitalized with respiratory …
5 Pregnancy Taboos Explained (or Debunked)
Pregnant? Probably everyone has an opinion about what you should and should not be doing. So it might be hard to ditch that extra cup of coffee after lunch or give up the European vacation you were so looking forward to, but …
Study: Smoking During Pregnancy May Result in Uncoordinated Kids
As if you needed another reason to quit smoking — especially during pregnancy — consider that women who puff while pregnant may hobble their babies' coordination and physical control.
How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life
In this week's TIME cover story, author Annie Murphy Paul writes: "What makes us the way we are? Why are some people predisposed to be anxious, overweight or asthmatic? How is it that some of us are prone to heart attacks, …
Giving Birth the IKEA Way: Do It Yourself
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Why It's Harder For Older Women to Have Healthy Babies
No one likes being labeled, but celebrate your 35th birthday and get pregnant and you're out of luck: like it or not, the letters "AMA" get slapped across your chart.
Diagnosing Postpartum Depression with a Brain Scan
Postpartum depression strikes about 15% of mothers in the first months after delivery, but it's not clear yet which women are at risk. Now researchers at University of Pittsburgh report on a brain-imaging test that may identify …
Osama Bin Laden as Doting Granddad?
It was hard to know how to feel when I heard that a British surrogate carrying Osama bin Laden's twin grandchildren had lost the pregnancy in a bizarre, somewhat incomprehensible attack in Syria.
Survey: Cesarean Sections Are More Likely at For-Profit Hospitals
Pregnant and hoping to avoid a cesarean section? Chances are you'd be better off checking into a nonprofit hospital, according to a new survey released by California Watch.


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Small size Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) are the mainstay of the notes we currently use today. Although they were issued in denominations of $1 to $10,000, only the $1 to $100 are in current use today. On July 14, 1969 President Nixon signed into law a bill requiring any ,denomination over $100 bill be returned to the Treasury Department to be destroyed. The last $500 to $10,000 were last printed in 1946 and were stopped being issued by the Federal Reserve Banks in 1969 by then President Richard Nixon. All FRN issues have a Green Seal.
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